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Enhancing Services To Homeless Populations Through An Interprofessional Virtual World Simulation, Susan Toth-Cohen, Anne C. Smith, M.Ed.

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Simulations are increasingly implemented as core teaching strategies in healthcare education. Along with the growth and proliferation of many forms of simulation, new venues for implementation also have emerged, including virtual world (VW) role play simulations (Jarmon, Traphagan, Mayrath, & Trevedi, 2009; Rogers, 2010; Walker & Rockinson-Szapkiw, 2009). These VW simulations enable interprofessional teams of students to learn and test their knowledge and skills in real time, within settings that can model a wide range of institutional and community practice environments.

VW simulations provide many of the same benefits that have been described in campus-based simulations, such as practice within …

Caregiver Evaluation Of A Palliative Care Consultation Team Using The Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (Jtog) By Caregivers Of Severely Ill Patients, John Liantonio, Md, Beth Wagner, Crnp, Kristine Swartz Md, Molly Hanson, Crnp, Kathleen Mechler, Md, Brooke Worster, Md, Carol Brown, Susan Parks Md

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Background:

Palliative care teams strive to improve the quality of life of patients and their families who are faced with life threatening illnesses by addressing the physical, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of their care (World HealthOrganization, 2017). The palliative care team is an interprofessional team made up of physicians, nurses, social workers and chaplains and often partners with many other disciplines. Palliative care has been shown to increase quality of life in patients with cancer and help improve communication amongst patients, their families and their care teams (Temel, 2010; Seow, 2008). Additionally, many studies have sought to prove the effectiveness …

From The Editors

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

This spring marks an exciting time for JCIPE as we prepare to celebrate our 10^th anniversary as a center for interprofessional education. Ten years ago, students across our six colleges rarely interacted; IPE was a fairly new and often misunderstood term on campus. Now, a decade later, Jefferson has embraced a culture where IPE and collaborative practice are expected, welcomed and increasingly integrated across the learning continuum, from first year students to seasoned providers. This spring, we graduated our ninth cohort of Jefferson Health Mentors Program students, developed three new advanced IPE electives, compiled a comprehensive inventory of IPE …

Download Entire Issue: Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education And Evaluation (Jcipe), Volume 7, Number 2, 2016

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Articles in this issue include:

Interprofessional Peer Teaching: Physical Therapy Students Teaching Dental Students to Transfer Patients

The Development of the Interprofessional Leadership Institute for Mental Health Equity

Teaching Interprofessional Practice Skills by “Saving Humanity”: An Innovative IPE Curricular Method Using a Cooperative Strategy Board Game

Reflections from the Bedsides of Dying Patients

Reflections From The Bedsides Of Dying Patients, Hannah Decleene, Patrick Kukulich

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

I walked into a room with its lights glaring and television blaring, a room where a man I had never met before would take his final breath two hours later. The attending nurse kindly dimmed the lights and turned off the television. I sat down next to him. I felt panic. I felt sadness, and I felt peace. This individual would have passed without me knowing, yet I was there with him; he wouldn’t be alone.

The No One Dies Alone (NODA) chapter at Jefferson launched in May, 2016. It launched as a vision in which students of Thomas Jefferson …

Teaching Interprofessional Practice Skills By "Saving Humanity": An Innovative Ipe Curricular Method Using A Cooperative Strategy Board Game, Emily Mccave, Phd, Msw, Lmsw

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Statement of Issue

Increasingly, team-based interprofessional (IP) collaboration is the central model of practice for health disciplines (Khalili, Orchard, Laschinger, & Farah, 2013). Yet traditional education models can foster a uniprofessional identity that leads to “turf protection” and subsequent resistance to IP collaboration (Bronstein, 2003, p. 448). Interprofessional education (IPE) models, however, are designed to promote team competency and an IP identity (Lindgard, 2013). IPE activities often focus on building student competency in four core areas: efficient and effective teamwork, effective communication, understanding of professional roles, and shared values (Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), 2016). Innovative IPE activities provide students with …

The Development Of The Interprofessional Leadership Institute For Mental Health Equity, Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombe, Phd, Rn, Pmhnp

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Abstract

The Interprofessional Leadership Institute for Mental Health Equity is being developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to reduce mental health disparities by (1) engaging students in interprofessional service learning and research activities, (2) promoting integration of community-based strategies and social determinants of mental health conditions among underserved and vulnerable groups as required curricular components, (3) enhancing workforce diversity (in partnership with Racial/Ethnic Minority-Serving Colleges/Universities) by supporting students to obtain professional careers in mental health care, mental health policy, and mental health leadership, and (4) supporting current mental health providers, educators, and researchers who are working …

Interprofessional Peer Teaching: Physical Therapy Students Teaching Dental Students To Transfer Patients, Kim Dunleavy, Pt, Phd, Ocs, Venita Sposetti, Dmd

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Background While the need for interprofessional education (IPE) has been clearly elucidated, (Interprofessional Education Collaborative, 2016), one of the major barriers is the logistical challenge of meeting curricular requirements for all involved. The organization and time required in an already full schedule are often deterrents. Ideal opportunities meet specific program curricular requirements as well as enhancing interprofessional competencies. Interprofessional competencies include developing skills to teach other health care providers about profession-specific skills and enhancing communication across the professions (Bridges, 2011; Interprofessional Education Collaborative, 2016). Active learning techniques have been advocated for adult learners to promote motivation and engagement (Knowles, 1984), …

From The Editors, Christine A. Arenson, Md, Lauren Collins Md, Shoshana Sicks, Med

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Here at JCIPE, another semester has flown by. And again, the Center has been busy expanding and integrating our programs on campus and beyond. This fall, as we welcomed our tenth cohort into the Jefferson Health Mentors Program, we introduced a revised curriculum which is more heavily focused on the social determinants of health and integrates the Social Ecological Model. We also added an eighth profession, Medical Laboratory Sciences, to the mix, expanding our total student enrollment to more than 1400 students! Building on this foundation, this fall we also expanded our more advanced interprofessional TeamSTEPPS® training program. During the …

Nuclear Factor Κb Inhibitors Alleviate And The Proteasome Inhibitor Ps-341 Exacerbates Radiation Toxicity In Zebrafish Embryos, Borbala Daroczi, Gabor Kari, Qing Ren, Adam Dicker Md, Phd, Ulrich Rodeck

Bodine Journal

Inflammatory changes are a major component of the normal tissue response to ionizing radiation, and increased nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) activity is an important mediator of inflammatory responses. Here, we used zebrafish embryos to assess the capacity of two different classes of pharmacologic agents known to target NF-κB to modify radiation toxicity in the vertebrate organism. These were proteasome inhibitors, including lactacystin, MG132, and PS-341 (Bortezomib/VELCADE), and direct inhibitors of NF-κB activity, including ethyl pyruvate (EP) and the synthetic triterpenoid CDDO-TFEA (RTA401), among others. The proteasome inhibitors either did not significantly affect radiation sensitivity of zebrafish embryos (MG132, lactacystin) or …

Jeffhope News-Fall 2016

JeffHOPE News

This issue includes:

• Updates: HCV Testing
• From the Project Director
• New Position: Triage Director
• Clinic at a Glance
• Advocacy Spotlight
• Research at JEFFHope
• Eye screening in an urban homeless shelter
• Contraception
• Self-Reported Indicators for Hepatitis C Virus Screening in JEFFHope Patients
• EKG Study
• Assessing the Need for Dermatological Care and Prevalence of Dermatologic conditions in an urban homeless shelter
• Spotlight on the John Bell Center
• If you had to describe JEFFHope in one word...
• Reflections by Committee Members and Directors
• 2016-2017 JEFFHope Volunteers

Download Entire Issue- Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education, And Evaluation (Jcipe), Spring 2016, Volume 7, Issue 1

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

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Interprofessional Practice Increasingly Influences Jefferson Students' University Selection

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

• Data supplied by the Office of Institutional Research and drawn from its New Student Survey question “Please identify why you selected Thomas Jefferson University over other institutions.”

• Students given 29 options and asked to select the top three (3) reasons that influenced their decision.

• Five items are generally cited as major reasons that students select Jefferson, including academic reputation, quality of faculty, campus location, affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and clinical opportunities available.

• Despite the above consistent (and expected/desired) reasons and the change in question format to require students to select only their top three …

Jcipe And The Jefferson Digital Commons, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

In June 2014, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Review Board re-accredited Thomas Jefferson University and in their report they made sure to highlight the exemplar work being done by the Jefferson Center for InterProfessional Education (JCIPE). JCIPE, founded in 2007, was commended by the accreditation committee for its work during the committee’s most recent visit to Philadelphia in June 2014.

To help foster the mission of JCIPE, the Jefferson Digital Commons has partnered to archive the JCIPE eNewsletter. Archiving the newsletter has allowed JCIPE to continue promoting their mission to an international community and has allowed the international …

A Community College Interprofessional Nurse Managed Center Practice Model, Donna Meyer, Msn, Rn, Anef

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Lewis and Clark Community College (L&C) has initiated an innovative interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) model at its Family Health Clinic (FHC), a nurse managed center, located at the main campus in Godfrey, Illinois. The FHC previously operated successfully for seven years, and has exceeded the projected impact with the numbers of individuals served in the community. The project is innovative and distinctive in providing an IPCP model in that it is inter-institutional, with several of the participating practitioners from institutions other than L&C. The core leadership of the model remains with the nursing professionals at the FHC. It is important …

From Interprofessional Education To Collaborative Practice: A Jefferson Alumna's Perspective, Chelsea (Gorman) Lytle, Bsn, Rn

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

I graduated from Jefferson College of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University in May 2015 and began my work as a perioperative nurse the following July. During my time at Jefferson, I not only participated in the Health Mentors Program (HMP), but was also given the opportunity to work closely with JCIPE and a group of students from other health care professions to refine and expand IPE offerings. We formed a student organization, now known as Jefferson Students for Interprofessional Education (JSIPE), which had three over-arching goals:

1. Students will gain exposure to real-world collaborative practice teams

2. Students will learn …

Leveraging Online Learning And Creative Narrative To Advance Interprofessional Competency Development, Karen T. Pardue, Phd, Rn, Cne, Anef, Shelley Cohen Konrad, Phd, Lcsw, Fnap

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

The need for health profession students to engage in collaborative interprofessional education (IPE) is abundantly evident. In contemporary practice, creating clinical environments which promote healing relies not just on the dispositions of individual clinicians, but also on the collective capacities of interprofessional healthcare teams (Konrad & Browning, 2012). Health profession educators are therefore increasingly challenged to: 1. design robust pedagogical curricula that prepare students with discipline-specific competencies to care for future patients; 2. offer shared learning experiences in which students develop interprofessional, team-based capacities grounded in intentional and respectful collaboration; and 3. cultivate an interprofessional culture amongst faculty that models …

A Community College's Foray Into Interprofessional Education, Judith Blum, Ms, Otr/L, Mary Kay Demarco, Phd, Rn, Cne

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

As initiatives and innovations in interprofessional education (IPE) continue to flourish in university settings, there is limited evidence this is occurring in two-year allied health and nursing programs found in community colleges. Recent literature indicates that graduates of associate degree allied health and nursing programs account for 49% of the total healthcare workforce (Brookings Institute, 2014). Graduates of these programs will work among those coming from university programs where IPE has been well established, therefore, it is imperative that this content be addressed at the community college. To meet this need, the Community College of Baltimore County’s (CCBC) School of …

From The Editors, Christine Arenson, Md, Elizabeth T. Speakman, Edd, Rn, Anef, Fnap, Lauren Collins, Md, Shoshana Sicks, Edm

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Happy Spring! You will notice that the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) newsletter has undergone a name and layout change. This represents the many new directions our Center is taking in both interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (CP) training. Indeed, JCIPE has had another busy spring. We started the new year by piloting the patient version of the Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (JTOG) in the inpatient setting, expanding an outpatient pilot that started last fall. Thanks to many research assistants, we have been able to gather some rich and informative data and this summer we hope to have …

People In The News

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

• Edith Mitchell, MD
• Jerry McCauley, MD
• Elizabeth Sophy
• Salam Beah

Thomas Jefferson University Chief Diversity Officer Mr. Joseph Hill

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

In 2013, Dr. Steve Klasko became President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University. Amongst the many ideas that he brought with him, he demanded that diversity and inclusion become a part of our daily lives. Diversity is part of the Blueprint for Strategic Action, Jefferson’s strategic plan. One month after his arrival at Jefferson, a communication went out to the Jefferson community that described the importance of an inclusive and diverse environments well as the importance of it being woven into our culture.

Skmc Council On Diversity And Inclusion

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

The SKMC Council for Diversity and Inclusion (D & I) is charged with enhancing the diversity and inclusiveness of the medical college community to allow us to best achieve our mission in patient care, education and research, and to the ability of our graduates to best serve the heath and health care needs of the public. The Council reviews and assesses the status and effectiveness of diversity and inclusion initiatives within the student, resident and faculty communities of SKMC and make recommendations regarding initiatives, policies, and resources needed to achieve desired outcomes. Headed by Mark L. Tykocinski, MD, the Anthony …

Student Group Activity

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

Descriptions of the following Student Groups:

• Student National Medical Association
• JeffLGBTQ
• Jewish Student Association
• Jefferson Muslim Society
• Latino Medical Students Association
• Medical Spanish Translator Program
• Diversity Council
• Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association
• Diversity and Inclusion Student Advisory Board

Recruitment

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

In 2015, SKMC took a team approach to recruitment. A team comprised of students, residents, and faculty, along with the diversity deans staffed recruiting tables at a variety of national venues. SKMC regularly recruits at the AAMC Minority Career Fair, the Student National Medical Association, and the Latino Medical Student Association. At the National Medical Association (the oldest and largest medical association for black physicians) in August 2015, the team included Mr. Joseph Hill, Chief Diversity Officer for Thomas Jefferson University.

Graduate Medical Education

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

To expand and enhance diversity and inclusion for our resident physicians, three initiatives targeting Graduate Medical Education are underway.

Faculty Initiatives

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

New URM faculty welcome meeting

Faculty Development-Unconscious Bias Workshop

Support for Minority and women faculty development

Formal Diversity Training

SKMC Search and Hiring Policy

Pipeline Programs

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

Asstated by the American Association of Medical Colleges, “a medical education program must develop programs or partnerships aimed at broadening diversity among qualified applicants for medical school admission”. Minority doctors comprise about 6 percent of the total U.S. physician population, a number that has not changed since the 1960s, says Traci R. Trice, MD, assistant dean for diversity and student diversity programs. “If you look more specifically at certain populations, particularly black males, the numbers have even gone down,” she notes. Yet African Americans comprise about 15 percent of the general U.S. population and Hispanics or Latinos make up about …

Skmc Gift: Baxter Scholarship

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Newsletter

The Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University is pleased to announce a gift of $2 million from Jim and Nancy Baxter that will provide scholarships to underrepresented students in medicine and support diversity programs at the college. The scholarships, to be named the “Baxter Family Scholarships,” will award full tuition to the Sidney Kimmel Medical College to four students in each of the incoming classes of 2020 and 2021.

Download Entire Issue- Jefferson Interprofessional Education And Care Newsletter, Fall 2015, Volume 6, Issue 2

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

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An Online Approach To Interprofessional Education, E. Adel Herge, Otd, Otr/L, Faota, Amber E. King, Pharmd, Bcps

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Despite increasing interest in providing interprofessional education (IPE) opportunities for health profession students, the logistics of scheduling and integrating diverse curriculums remain challenging. Several models to address these potential barriers have been proposed and utilized (Blue et al, 2010). Faculty from three colleges within Thomas Jefferson University developed an asynchronous online interprofessional course as one solution to overcome logistical barriers to IPE.

Interprofessional Grand Rounds is offered to third year pharmacy students and second year occupational therapy (OT) students in the fall semester. The course utilizes a variety of learning activities to evaluate the influence of current public health and …